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Xnoise – media player for Gtk

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Xnoise is a media player for Gtk+ with an attractive graphical user interface, fast performance, and bags of features.

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NAPS2 – document scanning application

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

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Netfilter – packet filtering framework

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Netfilter is a framework offering a set of hooks inside the Linux kernel that allows kernel modules to register callback functions with the network stack.

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Zeek – network security monitor

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Zeek is a powerful framework for network traffic analysis and security monitoring.

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Argus – auditing network software

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Audit Record Generation and Usage System (Argus) is a Real Time Flow Monitor that is designed to perform comprehensive IP network traffic auditing.

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ntop – network traffic probe

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does.

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SEC – tool for advanced event processing

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Simple Event Correlator (SEC) is an open source and platform independent event correlation tool. SEC is a simple event correlation tool.

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Scapy – packet manipulation program

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols.

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Knocker – TCP security port scanner

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Knocker is a simple, and easy to use TCP security port scanner written in C. It’s able to analyze hosts and the network services which are running on them.

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tcpreplay – Pcap editing and replaying utilities

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

tcpreplay is a set of tools written which gives you the ability to use previously captured traffic in libpcap format to test a variety of network devices.

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Darik’s Boot and Nuke – hard drive eraser and data clearing utility

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.

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Stunnel – proxy designed to add TLS encryption functionality

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

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Security

P3Scan – full-transparent proxy-server for email clients

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

P3Scan is a fully transparent proxy-server for POP3, SMTP, and limited POP3S Clients. It can be used to provide email scanning from the internet.

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Atlantik – Monopoly-like board game for KDE

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Atlantik is a KDE client for playing Monopoly-like boardgames on the monopd network. It includes Atlantik Designer.

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Game Tools

Slam Soccer 2006 – free funny football game in 3D-comic-style

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Slam Soccer 2006 is a comic style football game with 3 game modes: Friendly game, World Cup, and Career.

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Frets on Fire – free, open-source Finnish music video game

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

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Spring – free real-time strategy game

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Spring has the ambitious aim of creating the best ever real-time strategy, a strategic game that is distinctly not turn-based.

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Game Tools

Glest – free 3D real-time strategy game

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Glest takes place in a context which could be compared to that of the pre-renaissance Europe.

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Game Tools

WarMUX – open source worms game

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

WarMUX is a game where funny animals fight on a 2D map with funny weapons.

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Game Tools

Nexuiz – open-source first person shooter

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Nexuiz is a free open-source first person shooter. Nexuiz is a fast-paced 3D deathmatch game with high-end and complex graphics effects.

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